The Life and Work of Archimedes Archimedes was a very intelligent and a great man. He is thought of as one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time, along with Newton and Gauss. In his time he was referred to by such great aliases as “The wise one”, “The Master”, and “The Great Geometer”. And his work has yet to have been forgotten. He was indubitably was one of the last of the great Greek mathematical minds that this world has ever seen. I will attempt to show
astronomical heritage just as her as her father did. According to the article "Hypatia" by Michael Deak, "She is credited with commentaries (comments and explanations) on Apollonius of Perga's Conic and Diophantus of Alexandria's Arithmetic, as well as an astronomical table." Apollonius of Perga's Conic are theories created by Apollonius of Perga who was a Greek geometer, meaning he was a mathematician who studied geometry. Specifically, the conic section dealt with hyperbolas, parabolas, and ellipses. Diophantus
second best-selling book of all time.6 The works of Pythagoras and Euclid have become fundamental building blocks for any person with an eighth-grade understanding mathematics. With these advancements, as well as innovations from Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Islamic scholars translated their works and contributed even more, growing the worldwide understanding of mathematics.7 Greek progressions in geometry as well as the theory of proof contributed greatly to our ultimate understanding of contemporary
Euclid of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician most known for his groundbreaking work in geometry and is often called the father of geometry. Most of Euclid’s life is unknown, the public mostly knows about Euclid through Proclus, who was the last major Greek philosopher. It is said that Euclid was born around 365 B.C. in Alexandria, Egypt and lived until about 300 B.C. According to Proclus Euclid taught in Alexandria in the time of Ptolemy I Soter. Euclid is most famous for his 13-volume book on
new philosophers and ideas came up and became primary theories as many Greeks believed in these new theories. There were, “Many advances were made in such sciences as empirical medicine, astronomy, and mathematics; it was the time of Euclid, Apollonius of Perga,
The History of Math Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the